Dynamene

Template:Short description Template:Greek myth (aquatic nymphs) In Greek mythology, Dynamene (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx "the bringer"<ref name=Bane>Bane, p. 117</ref>) was a Nereid or sea-nymph, one of the 50 daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Homer, Iliad 18.43; Hesiod, Theogony 248; Apollodorus, 1.2.7</ref> Her name, a participle, means "she who can, the capable one."<ref>Hesiod. Theogony ll. 240-264. Retrieved 4 October 2020</ref> She, along with her sister Pherusa, was associated with the might and power of great ocean swells. Dynamene had the ability to appear and disappear rapidly.<ref name=Bane/> Some variations of her name were Dyomene<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus)</ref> and Dinamene<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Scheffero)</ref>

Mythology

In Homer's Iliad, Dynamene and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.<ref name="Hom">Homer, Iliad 18.39-51</ref><ref>Lempriere, John. Bibliotheca classica; or, A classical dictionary, p. 257</ref>

References

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• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Template:ISBN. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.